Land use

Can the wrongs be righted? Prospects for remedy in the Philippine oil palm agro‐industry

Journal article / Read one of the first detailed examinations of the growing oil palm sector in the Philippines.

Do voluntary corporate actions improve cumulative effects assessment? Mining companies’ performance on Sami lands

Journal article / How far has reliance on voluntary action improved mining companies' assessments of cumulative effects on indigenous peoples and their land use?

Bioeconomy trends in developing countries

Past event / This session brings views of bioeconomy, emphasising a global perspective and aiming to connect developments in the Global South to those in the EU.

Poison and profit: mining on traditional lands

Perspective / In the underground depths of northern Canada lies a monster. That’s how one local describes the 237,000 tons of arsenic left from an abandoned mining project.

Amidst social and environmental dynamics in Ilulissat, West Greenland

Perspective / Images of calving icebergs show the impacts of climate change in the Arctic. Rexsac researchers were in InIlulissat, in western Greenland.

More farmers, less farming? Understanding the truncated agrarian transition in Thailand

Journal article / Drawing on research from Thailand, this paper seeks to understand the ways in which life course, generational, era-defining and developmental change intersect.

Film screening in Stockholm on 28 March

Past event / REXSAC invites you to a film showing on 28 March at 17:30 at the Nordic Museum.

Land degradation worsening climate change and undermining well-being of billions

Feature / The first comprehensive assessment of land degradation and restoration has now been launched.

Getting the numbers right: revisiting woodfuel sustainability in the developing world

Journal article / This paper identifies the woodfuel "hotspots" where interventions are more likely to reduce deforestation or degradation.